"Turn your eyes away from Me, for they have overcome Me."
Song of Solomon 6:5
"Our eyes of devotion move Jesus' heart. Our greatest glory is that we can move God's heart. What overcomes His heart? The greatness of the stars, oceans and mountains do not. The vast armies of men or demons are nothing before Him. The greatest warrior in history is "conquered" by our love, when we are true to him in times of testing. Yes, our eyes of love move Him."
(Mike Bickle, commentary on the Song of Songs)
How can this be? How is it possible that the Creator of the Universe, the One who holds all things in His hand, the Almighty God is overcome by the gaze of His faithful lovers?!
One of my favorite songs speaks of Jesus, our King, and declares, "You have captured our hearts again!" This makes sense to me! Jesus captures our hearts, because He is so good, He is so faithful, He is so perfectly loving. But, when this beautiful, perfect, holy God says that we capture His heart I fall to me knees, absolutely amazed. What kind of God is this?! Whom is this God that we serve?! What kind of love is this?! I stand in awe. I can only worship...
2 comments:
Absolutely beautiful! I too am in awe of him!
Blessings,
Jean
Thanks for your recent comment. I appreciate your honesty. And I would agree with you. We DO NOT discipline all of our kids in the same way. Some of them require spankings and others need only a rebuke. So, in that way we seek wisdom to deal with each child on an individual basis. What I was trying to get at was reaching the heart issues. Behavior stems from what is going on in the heart, "out of the heart the mouth speaks." God does deal with us all diferently, but only as it is held within the perimiters of His Word!! We do not see any of our children shutting down when we disicpline them, quite the contrary, just as the Fathers' discipline does not seem pleasant at the time, it brings repentence and fruit. When it is all said and done, our kids need to know that who they are is found in Jesus Christ alone--our identity becomes His.
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